Cyndi Lauper

Tom Kitt remembers seeing punk-pop group Green Day for the first time. He was a student at New York's Columbia University in the '90s and saw them in concert on MTV. "I just knew they were special," he says over a lunch interview in Manhattan recently. "They were charismatic. They were raw. They were melodic. And they got thousands of people to go crazy. They were writing evocative, powerful songs in whatever style they wanted and suddenly, they were The Beatles." Kitt, the composer of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "Next to Normal," found himself five years ago being asked to adapt and arrange Green Day's seminal rock opera...

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